Wednesday, September 19, 2012

The Foreign-Policy Disaster Maker

by Andrew Roman

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So, while the American left obsessively spent most of the
last thirty six hours or so trying to divert attention away from the continuing
disaster that is Barack Obama in the White House, my thoughts were focused on
matters that are actually relevant to the real world.

Islamic rage was all the rage late last week. It
continued into the weekend and right on into this week at points all across the
globe. From the assault on our embassy in Cairo to the murder of four Americans
in Libya, from the fires set at our embassy in Tunisia to mobs burning our flag
in London, there was no respite. We were
told that an obscure video negatively depicting the Prophet Mohammed was responsible
for triggering this latest edition of Muslim fury. The shock waves of this
insult even found its way onto American shores when two college campuses were shut
down and evacuated last Friday due to threats from some entity identifying
itself as Al Qaeda. The nuclear facility at the University of Texas was also
evacuated.

On Monday, we heard of new waves of protests breaking out
in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Yesterday, we heard about an Iranian submarine being
deployed in the Persian Gulf.

And while we were reminded by the First Lady last week
that the greatest threat to national security is, in fact, obesity, anyone who
may have been holding their breath waiting for the President (or anyone in this
administration) to use the words “terrorist” or “terrorism” - or heaven forbid
it, an “act of war” – regarding the attacks on our consulate and embassies has long
since keeled over. (Just imagine if the terrorists had stormed the consulate brandishing
twinkies and Doritos). Equally, anyone who may have been hoping for a strong
showing from the leader of the free world in the wake of terrorist acts against
American interests on the eleventh anniversary of the worst single act of
terrorism in this country’s history had better find a new place to channel that
hope.

The lamestream media did not see the immediate need, nor
recognize the immediate relevance, in asking this President of the United States why security was not beefed up
at American embassies in hostile territories for the 9/11 anniversary, but have
had no problem utilizing every nanosecond of air time over the past day and a
half to turn its collective focus on Mitt Romney and comments he made about
non-income-tax-paying Americans. (Had Obama been a Republican is there any
doubt he’d have been hammered with this obvious
question?) They didn’t bother to inquire as to why he, as Commander-In-Chief,
did not (and still does not) feel the need to attend the majority of his own
intelligence briefings. They didn’t even ask how he and fellow Democrats can
claim that Mitt Romney was playing politics with the events overseas when President
Obama himself flew to a Las Vegas fundraiser that same day.

Fortunately for us, the White House on Friday assured the
public that the anti-American violence was not directed at the United States.

Repeat: Not
directed at the United States.

It must have been the storming of the American embassies,
the torching of American flags and the burning of President Obama in effigy that
confused me.

Jay
Carney, White House Press Secretary, wasted no time espousing the administration’s view that the inane little anti-Mohammed YouTube video being
“credited” for triggering all of this terroristic upheaval – the one unseen and unheard of by just about every living human being on earth – was
officially judged to “be reprehensible and disgusting.”

Thank
heaven that was cleared up.

So, in
the wake of Americans being murdered and our interests remaining under assault
overseas, while our embassies were being attacked, while American flags were
being burned, while protests were spreading, and while the entire region teetered
on the brink of full explosion, our President wanted to let the bad guys know
that we think the film that supposedly made all of them mad is disgusting?

Leadership.

Meanwhile,
those of us who recoil and wince at this ongoing projection of American
weakness and appeasement do not give a rat’s earlobe how offended or insulted
radical murderers become. The instant the decision was made to trade insults for innocent lives, their
feelings about anything became
irrelevant. The fact that Americans were murdered because of an amateurish
internet movie that no one saw, followed by an official stance of “I’m sorry”
by our pathetic Clinton-run State Department was – and is – enough to make me sick. Meanwhile, I’m still waiting to hear
which adjectives the White House will muster to describe the breeches of
American sovereignty through these terrorist acts overseas. Surely, Obamacrats are
aware that embassies actually do
represent sovereign states - that an attack on an embassy is, by definition,
an attack on the country itself.

Oh
wait, these events transpired last
week. It's old hat. It's immaterial today because that lout Mitt Romney had the nerve – the unmitigated
gall – to talk about the 47% of
Americans who do not pay income tax….their fair
share, to quote a phrase.

To
his credit, Carney did concede that
the ever-escalating acts of protest and violence overseas were “fairly volatile.”

Fairly volatile.

Yet
the movie was reprehensible.

I
cannot help but ponder: How many dead Americans move that word from the “fairly
volatile” column to the “reprehensible” column.

Indeed, there are times when it is impossible to
determine whether or not this administration is actually as incompetent and
clueless as they portray themselves, or whether they are commandeering a calculated
effort to make sure that no one alive (save for Christians and Republicans) is
ever offended again – as if to be loved is (or should be) the United States’
purpose on this globe. On a daily basis, I watch how this President handles
himself, this country and world at large, and almost daily I am astounded at
the absolute ineptitude I see.

How, for instance, can the President of the United States
look so ridiculously indecisive – I mean embarrassingly
bad - when asked if Egypt is an American ally?

How can he possibly say that
Mitt Romney “shoots before he aims” when the President himself jumped the gun
(if not the entire arsenal) when declaring the Cambridge, Massachusetts police
department stupid in what was a nonexistent case of racism in the matter of
Professor Henry Gates? Or commenting on the Trayvon Martin killing before
knowing any of the facts (wasting no time interjecting his race into the matter).

This is the man who has, time and time again, spoke ill
of his own country on foreign soil and has bowed to foreign heads of state. He
has adopted an apology-first approach in dealing with the world-at-large – his I’m- sorry-we’re- so-big-and-powerful motif
- that has done nothing but alienate long-time friends and allies while
emboldening America’s enemies. It quite literally sickens me.

He continues his hell-bent pursuit of reducing America’s
relevance and influence in the world, while proffering a position of moral
equivalence – the How-can-I-ask-Iran-To-Not-Pursue-Nukes-When-We-Have-So-Many
approach. He is almost obsessed with
being as inoffensive as he can to those who would – and do – commit evil acts on innocents (the “t” word), but has absolutely
no problem unleashing his wrath on American entrepreneurs and innovators with
his “you didn’t build that” message.

The man who won the Nobel Peace Prize for doing
absolutely nothing and for saying that he was uniquely qualified to bring
stability to American-Muslim relations – the man who predicted that his living in a Muslim country as a boy would be a useful tool in promoting international Kumbaya, saying, “I truly believe that the day I’m inaugurated, not only does the
country look at itself differently, but the world looks at America differently.
If I’m reaching out to the Muslim world, they understand that I’ve lived in a
Muslim country, and I may be a Christian, but I also understand their point of
view” – must now be wondering what has gone wrong. Everything was in place for a complete transmutation of a pre-Obama world into a post-everything age of peace, stability and fuzzy bunnies.

Surely, this unrest cannot be because of him - the leader of a fundamentally
transforming United States - or his policies. It must be - has to be - that lousy filmmaker. After all,
President Obama has a half-Indonesian sister.

This is the man who apologized in Cairo for his country
employing interrogation techniques that saved countless innocent lives and
ultimately contributed to the killing of Osama Bin Ladin. This is the man who has
called his own country arrogant and dismissive. This is the man who condemned
his own nation for “too often” making decisions “based on fear rather than
foresight.” This is the man who publically announced military withdrawal dates
from war zones, thus lightening the load for our enemies. This is the man who
said nothing while Iran’s government killed innocents during uprisings there.
This is the man determined to make dangerous and drastic cuts to our defense
budget.

So, in a world where angry Muslims seem to be dictating the terms – a world where French fear is prompting the closure of twenty of its embassies worldwide because of a cartoon – the President of the United States continues to believe that peace through softness is the correct course. In a world where our collapsing exit strategy in Afghanistan is making things exponentially more unstable and chaotic, the President finds time for $40,000-a-plate fundraisers in New York and fun-loving sit-downs with David Letterman. In a world where video cameras just happened to be present as police found and took into custody the two-bit movie maker in the middle of the night (for other reasons, of course), President Obama parties with Jay-Z and Beyonce.

Meanwhile, the press continues its assault on Mitt Romney, that heartless bastard.

5 comments:

Andrew, I don't use the word very often, but that was brilliant! Very well said. One of many shining points, was your example of the Gates affair, along with Trayvon Martin, illustrating perfectly his hypocrisy in accusing Romney of "shooting first and aiming later".

Forty eight days 'til the election my friends! You all know what we have to do!

I know it's been said ad nauseum in the conservative world, but if even a fraction of what has transpired under this administration's reign of incompetence and embarrassment happened under any Republican Commander-In-Chief, every point I made would be a fixture on every lamestream media opinion page and lib cable commentary show - not to mention late nate monologues - ewverywhere across the map. Unbelievable. This is American security we're talking about, and these candy-stripers with steno pads are worried about some edited comment about non-income-tax payers that is absolutely accurate?

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